More than four weeks after being stranded, the Chief of the remote Amerindian village of Kurutuku, Solomon Lewis finally began his long journey home on Tuesday.
Lewis left Kurutuku – along the banks of the Cuyuni River in Region Seven – for Georgetown in July to attend the National Toshaos Council held in the last week of that month. While on his way, the engine of the village boat hit a rock in one of the many rapids in the Cuyuni River, and it was badly damaged. Since then, he said,
